Quiz 1

A  Supreme Court ended all pretense of constitutional protection of state power in its 1985 Garcia decision. The court declared that there were no constitutionally protected state powers and that the only protection given the states is in congressional and presidential elections.

B  By the time of President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society in 1964, virtually all problems confronting America were declared to be national problems. The Supreme Court no longer concerned itself with the reserved powers of the states and the 10th Amendment lost most of its meaning.

C  The development of a national economy, the income tax, two world wars and the Great Depression all combined to end the strict distinction between national and state concerns.

D  Efforts to return power and responsibility to states and communities. Led to reducing state and local dependency on federal revenues and return powers to states and communities through the consolidation of categorical grants into block grants.

E  The states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres. The national government concentrated its attention on the delegated powers while the states decided the important domestic policy issues.

A  A federally funded government program run and managed by a local government.

B  A federally funded government program run and managed by a nonprofit organization.

C  A federally funded government program run and managed by a federal agency.

D  None of these answers are correct.

E  A federally funded government program run and managed by state governments.

A  The development of a national economy, the income tax, two world wars and the Great Depression all combined to end the strict distinction between national and state concerns.

B  Supreme Court ended all pretense of constitutional protection of state power in its 1985 Garcia decision. The court declared that there were no constitutionally protected state powers and that the only protection given the states is in congressional and presidential elections.

C  By the time of President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society in 1964, virtually all problems confronting America were declared to be national problems. The Supreme Court no longer concerned itself with the reserved powers of the states and the 10th Amendment lost most of its meaning.

D  Efforts to return power and responsibility to states and communities. Led to reducing state and local dependency on federal revenues and return powers to states and communities through the consolidation of categorical grants into block grants.

E  The states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres. The national government concentrated its attention on the delegated powers while the states decided the important domestic policy issues.

A  The development of a national economy, the income tax, two world wars and the Great Depression all combined to end the strict distinction between national and state concerns.

B  By the time of President Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society in 1964, virtually all problems confronting America were declared to be national problems. The Supreme Court no longer concerned itself with the reserved powers of the states and the 10th Amendment lost most of its meaning.

C  Supreme Court ended all pretense of constitutional protection of state power in its 1985 Garcia decision. The court declared that there were no constitutionally protected state powers and that the only protection given the states is in congressional and presidential elections.

D  The states and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres. The national government concentrated its attention on the delegated powers while the states decided the important domestic policy issues.

E  Efforts to return power and responsibility to states and communities. Led to reducing state and local dependency on federal revenues and return powers to states and communities through the consolidation of categorical grants into block grants.

A  create a balance of power between the national government and that of the states.

B  favor states’ rights over the rights of the national government in cases of commerce.

C  increase the power of the national government and to reduce that of the states.

D  decrease the power of the national government and to increase that of the states.

E  None of these answers are correct.

A  the ruling provided the national government with decreasing power over economic affairs throughout the land.

B  the power to regulate interstate commerce was determined to be an exclusive national power of the federal government.

C  state governments won the right to control navigation in interstate waters.

D  the national government lost the power to regulate intrastate commerce.

E  the Supreme Court found that commerce was defined as the exchange of goods and not navigation or transport of people.

A  to rule on how the necessary and proper clause should be implemented between states that already had existing contracts.

B  whether the national government had the implied power to charter a bank and contribute capital to it.

C  None of these answers are correct.

D  whether the national government could abolish slavery in the Southern states.

E  to decide how to apply the commerce clause to the individual states.

A  agreements on minor matters.

B  agreements that do not increase the power of a state relative to another state.

C  agreements that require congressional consent.

D  None of these answers are correct.

E  agreements that do not increase the power of a state relative to the national government.

A  oo much reliance on communication and transportation.

B  unequal protection of states from foreign invasion.

C  inequalities among states’ educational spending and achievement.

D  None of these answers are correct.

E  oo much reliance on communication and transportation.

A  states can serve as laboratories for novel economic or social experiments

B  it reduces inequalities among the states.

C  states can farm out responsibility to the national government

D  None of these answers are correct.

E  it keeps some distance between the federal government and state government.

A  non-slave states over slave states.

B  federal / national law over state law.

C  large states over small states.

D  None of these answers are correct

E  natural law over man-made law.

A  has served to limit the expansion of national authority.

B  has expanded the role of the national government relative to the states.

C  is located in the Constitution in the text of the Tenth Amendment.

D  was in the original Constitution, but was eliminated as a consequence of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment.

E  has increased the powers of the state governments at the expense of Congress’s powers.

A  expressed powers.

B  enumerated powers.

C  delegated powers.

D  concurrent powers.

E  None of these answers are correct.

A  direct democracy.

B  None of these answers are correct.

C  limited government.

D  confederal democracy.

E  limited presidentialism.

A  the protection of individual liberties from the national government.

B  the protection of individual liberties from state governments.

C  equal protection under the law.

D  protection against state infringements on the freedoms of conscience, the press, and jury trial.

A  publication of the Declaration of Independence.

B  request of President Washington

C  failure of the Articles of Confederation.

D  end of the Revolutionary War.

E  publication of the Treaty of Paris.

A  Each state had the ability to print its own currency.

B  Congress lacked the power to demand funds for the militia.

C  Congress lacked the power to collect taxes directly from the people, Congress lacked the power to demand funds for the militia , each state had the ability to print its own currency and each state had one vote regardless of size.

D  Each state had one vote regardless of size.

E  Congress lacked the power to collect taxes directly from the people

A  It had a strong central government that managed weaker states.

B  It was an association of largely independent states.

C  None of these answers are correct.

D  It was federal state.

E  It was a constitutional monarchy

A  John Adams.

B  Thomas Jefferson.

C  Benjamin Franklin.

D  John Locke.

E  George Washington.

A  government should do what is best for the majority of people

B  a small group of elites should control government power and act in the interests of the majority.

C  government should do what the majority of the people want it to.

D  None of these answers are correct.

E  government should be controlled at all levels by an elected majority political party

A  the right of citizens to demand equality.

B  the right of government to enforce its decisions

C  None of these answers are correct.

D  a major government office.

E  the right of citizens to demand liberty.

A  education for children.

B  security for society and protection of private property.

C  insurance for the unemployed.

D  None of these answers are correct.

E  freedom of the press.

A  all societies are governed by elites.

B  average citizens are well informed and politically active.

C  few societies are divided into elites and masses

D  elites do not protect government by the people.

E  None of these answers are correct.

A  Disclosing only the military routes a nation-state will undertake.

B  Hiding all routes the nation-state will undertake regarding all forms of public policy pertaining to its political, economic, and military strategies.

C  Disclosing only all economic routes the nation-state will undertake.

D  Disclosing all routes the nation-state will undertake regarding all forms of public policy pertaining to its political, economic, and military strategies.

E  None of these answers are correct.

A  Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources. This is primarily instinctual. After securing enough resources, individuals willingly give away their power reserves to society.

B  Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources. The accruement of power is the net result of using force to secure a greater “capacity of power.”

C  None of these answers are correct.

D  Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources. Compliance is not a viable route to the accruement of resources. Using force never decreases one’s overall “capacity of resources.”

E  Individuals pursue power in order to acquire additional resources that enable one to encourage further compliance among peers. Securing compliance adds to one’s overall capacity of power.

A  Idealism.

B  Pluralism.

C  Elitism.

D  Culturalism.

E  Realism.

A  None of these answers are correct

B  The success of one party does not depend on the success of another.

C  The success of one party is determined according to the success of its related peer.

D  Success is determined according only to one’s ability to achieve set goals.

E  Success is not determined according to one’s ability to achieve set goals.

A  Idealism.

B  Pluralism

C  Positivism.

D  Elitism.

E  Realism.

A  base their decisions according to societal trends of emotional influence.

B  base their decisions according to societal trends of behavior

C  base their decisions on their own emotional needs.

D  base their decisions according to the best interest of another party.

E  base their decisions according to self-interest…as one defines that self-interest to be.

A  Positivism

B  Realism

C  elitism

D  Idealism

E  Pluralism